The Meaning of Care [electronic resource] : The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People /
Weicht, Bernhard.author.
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Who Should Care? The Construction of Caring Relationships; 3 Where Should Care Be Given and Received? The Geographies of Care; 4 How Should Communities Care? Nostalgia and Longing for the Ideal; 5 Who Is Seen to Be Cared for? The Construction of the Care Receiver; 6 Buying and Selling Care? The Intrusion of Markets and Bureaucracy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.
Social policy.
Aging.
Social groups.
Family.
Welfare state.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Social Policy.
Aging.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Sociology, general.